ج ف ف

ج ف ف

Arabic

Root

ج ف ف • (j-f-f)

1. related to dryness

Derived terms

• Form I: جَفَّ‎ (jaffa, “to become dry”)
  • Verbal noun: جَفَاف‎ (jafāf), جُفُوف‎ (jufūf)
  • Active participle: جَافّ‎ (jāff)
• Form II: جَفَّفَ‎ (jaffafa, “to dry”)
  • Verbal noun: تَجْفِيف‎ (tajfīf)
  • Active participle: مُجَفِّف‎ (mujaffif)
  • Passive participle: مُجَفَّف‎ (mujaffaf)
• Form V: تَجَفَّفَ‎ (tajaffafa, “to become dry”)
  • Verbal noun: تَجَفُّف‎ (tajaffuf)
  • Active participle: مُتَجَفِّف‎ (mutajaffif)
• Form VIII: اِجْتَفَّ‎ (ijtaffa, “to consume all the liquid”)
  • Verbal noun: اِجْتِفَاف‎ (ijtifāf)
  • Active participle: مُجْتَفّ‎ (mujtaff)
  • Passive participle: مُجْتَفّ‎ (mujtaff)

• جُفّ‎ (juff, “hollow thing on something”)
• جَفَّة‎ (jaffa, “company of people, crowd”)
• جُفَّة‎ (juffa, “company of people, crowd”)
• جُفَاف‎ (jufāf, “dry residue”)
• جَفَّافَة‎ (jaffāfa, “swab”)

References

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881), “ج ف ف”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 199–200
• Freytag, Georg (1830), “ج ف ف”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 285–286
• Lane, Edward William (1863), “ج ف ف”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 431–432
• Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), “ج ف ف”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 187